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Unwired Planet International Ltd v Huawei Technologies Ltd, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and others [2016] EWHC 576 (Pat)22 March 2016Adrian Speck QC, Mark Chacksfield and Tom Jones (instructed by EIP legal) recently appeared for Unwired Planet in the third of four technical trials (Trial C) concerning alleged infringement of patents held by Unwired Planet and said to be essential to various mobile telecommunications standards. The trial concerned the alleged infringement of patent EP (UK) […]
Actavis UK Ltd and others v Eli Lilly & Company [2016] EWHC 234 (Pat) 12 February 201612 February 2016Richard Meade QC and Isabel Jamal, together with Thomas Raphael QC, successfully represented Actavis in the trial of the issues remitted by the Court of Appeal in Actavis v Lilly [2015] EWCA Civ 555. This action concerns Lilly’s European Patent No. 1 313 508 for the use of pemetrexed disodium, a chemotherapeutic treatment for lung […]
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc v Kymab Ltd & Novo Nordisk A/S1 February 2016Michael Tappin QC, James Whyte and William Duncan appeared at the trial of this claim by Regeneron for infringement of its patent by Kymab’s antibody-producing transgenic mice. The subject-matter was described by the judge, Henry Carr J, as being of great technical complexity. In essence, the patent related to transgenic mice in which variable regions […]
Unwired Planet International Ltd v Huawei Technologies Ltd, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and others [2016] EWHC 94 (Pat)29 January 2016Members of chambers appeared in the second of five technical trials (Trial B) in this mobile telecommunications patent action. Trial B involved two patents, EP 2 119 287 and EP 2 485 514, both of which concerned a scheme relating to the updating of neighbour cell lists. Deciding the case in favour of Huawei and […]
The London Taxi Corporation Ltd v Frazer-Nash Research Ltd and Ecotive Ltd20 January 2016Mark Platts-Mills QC (instructed by BLP) acted for the successful defendant in this Trade Mark infringement and passing off action relating to the design of a new zero-emissions London taxi.